Gidget Meets Hondo
Filmed in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo opens with stills taken by Bernard Nicolas of a demonstration against Love’s killing. Nicolas’ Gidget is a self-absorbed young white woman who remains clueless to the violence erupting around her, ultimately to her own peril. The film asks whether such police brutality would be tolerated if the victim were a middle-class white woman.
- Year: 1980
- Country: United States of America
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- Studio: UCLA School of Film and Television
- Keyword: police brutality, los angeles, california, black lives matter, l.a. rebellion, police shooting
- Director: Bernard Nicolas
- Cast: Bernard Nicolas, Peggy Skomal, Reginald Bruce, John Paspachel, Marie Contin, Michael Friend